Robotics Contracts in the Thames Valley

Robotics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Robotics in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Robotics over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 102 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Robotics 4 34 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.27% 1.28% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.78% 4.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 0
10th Percentile - £210 -
25th Percentile £525 £459 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £747 £688 -
90th Percentile £764 - -
South East median daily rate £638 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +2.00% +4.17% +17.65%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Robotics falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 514 774 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.97% 29.08% 32.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 456 615
10th Percentile £300 £205 £300
25th Percentile £400 £311 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £624
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £495 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -1.00% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 61 24
10th Percentile £13.18 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £15.13 £20.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £60.88
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% -50.72% +204.38%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.57 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.87 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £41.00 £51.00 £53.44
% change year-on-year -19.61% -4.56% +148.53%

Robotics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Robotics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Robotics in the Thames Valley

Robotics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Robotics in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Robotics in the Thames Valley

Robotics
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Robotics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Robotics in the Thames Valley

Robotics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Robotics in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Robotics in the Thames Valley

Robotics
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Robotics within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire +5 2 £550 +152.21% 17
Berkshire -2 2 £738 +9.26% 46
Robotics
South East

Robotics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Automotive
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Driving Car
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Vision
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) LLM
1 2 (50.00%) Logistics
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Development
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation